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Slings & Arrows (CA)
TV Series (2003)
In the fictional town of New Burbage, legendary theatrical madman Geoffrey Tennant returns to the Festival, the site of his greatest triumph and most humiliating failure, to assume the artistic directorship after the sudden death of his mentor, Oliver Welles. When he arrives he finds that Oliver is still there, in spirit anyway, and with his guidance Geoffrey attempts to reconcile with his past.
Series Info
Type:
Scripted
Premiered:
Nov. 2003
Status:
Canceled/Ended
Runtime:
N/A
Network
Genre
- comedy
Character Guide
[no characters found]
Series Fun Facts
- The fictional town of New Burbage as well as their primarily Shakespeare-based theatre festival is based on the Stratford Festival, located in Stratford, Ontario, Canada.
- SPOILER: Oliver's final instructions regarding what is to happen to his skull after his death are a reference to a story about Chicago actor and improv instructor Del Close, who requested…
[show]SPOILER: Oliver's final instructions regarding what is to happen to his skull after his death are a reference to a story about Chicago actor and improv instructor Del Close, who requested that after his death, his skull was to be donated to the Goodman Theatre for use as Yorick in its subsequent productions of Hamlet. After his death, Close's executor did indeed donate a human skull to the Goodman, and she claimed that it was Close's; but several years later, she admitted to The New Yorker that although she tried to carry out Close's wishes, the morgue wouldn't allow her to remove Close's head, so she instead bought a skull from a medical supply house and passed it off as Close's.
[hide] - The fictional town of New Burbage and its theater festival are presumably named after Richard Burbage, and actor-manager who was the star of many original Shakespeare plays and who…
[show]The fictional town of New Burbage and its theater festival are presumably named after Richard Burbage, and actor-manager who was the star of many original Shakespeare plays and who spearheaded, in 1597, the construction of the original Globe theater in London.
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